Im more case, you need run multiple applications on single server (single Apache instance) with multiple PHP versions. What do you do that? In this tutorial, i will present 4 steps to setting up multiple PHP versions on single Apache instance.
Download PHP source from Github or php.net. Build from downloaded source follow below command:
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$ wget http://us1.php.net/get/php-5.3.29.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
$ tar -xvzf mirror
$ cd php-5.3.29
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php53 \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/php53 \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php53/php.d \
--with-libdir=lib64 \
--enable-mbstring \
--disable-debug \
--disable-rpath \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mbregex \
--enable-phar \
--enable-posix \
--enable-soap \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvmsg \
--enable-sysvsem \
--enable-sysvshm \
--enable-zip \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-intl \
--with-icu-dir=/usr \
--with-curl=/usr/bin \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-png-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-xpm-dir=/usr \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr \
--with-bz2=/usr \
--with-gettext \
--with-iconv-dir=/usr \
--with-mcrypt=/usr \
--with-mhash \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-regex=php \
--with-pcre-regex \
--with-openssl \
--with-openssl-dir=/usr/bin \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
--with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
--with-sqlite3=/usr \
--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \
--with-pdo-sqlite=/usr \
--enable-cgi
$ make
$ make install
$ mkdir /etc/php53
$ cp php.ini-production /etc/php53/php.ini
mod_fastcgiYou can using google to find: how to install it
Making cgi script for each installed PHP versions. This is content of one script (/var/www/cgi-bin/php53.fcgi)
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#!/bin/bash
PHPRC="/etc/php53/php.ini"
PHP_CGI=/usr/local/php53/bin/php-cgi
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=8
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=3000
export PHPRC
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec $PHP_CGI
Modified and add below block to Apache config (recommend add to /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgi.conf).
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# /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgi.conf
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
# Use FastCGI to process .fcg .fcgi & .fpl scripts
AddHandler fcgid-script fcg fcgi fpl
# PHP 5.3
Action application/x-httpd-php53 /cgi-bin/php53.fcgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php53
# PHP 5.4
Action application/x-httpd-php54 /cgi-bin/php54.fcgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php54 .php54
# PHP 5.5 default
Action application/x-httpd-php55 /cgi-bin/php55.fcgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php55 .php55
# Sane place to put sockets and shared memory file
FcgidIPCDir /var/run/mod_fcgid
FcgidProcessTableFile /var/run/mod_fcgid/fcgid_shm
</IfModule>
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your-domain.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/your-webroot/
ErrorLog logs/error-your-app.log
CustomLog logs/access-your-app.log combined
<Directory /var/www/apps/your-webroot/>
Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php53
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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